Pile truss



July 12, 1955 D. A. DE WOLF ET AL PILE TRUSS Filed Jan. 12, 1954 IN V EN TORS.

2,712,821 Patented July 1.2, 1955 PILE TRUSS Donald A. De Wolf and Viola A. De Wolf, Winner, S. Dali.

Application lunuary 12, 1954, Serial No. 403,572 2 Claims. (Cl. 128-98) This invention relates to useful improvements and structural refinements in trusses and the principal object of the invention is to provide a truss of the character herein described, which may be conveniently and effectively employed to assure the comfort as well as the sanitation of persons suffering with piles or hemorrhoids.

An important feature of the invention provides in its simplicity of construction, in its comfortable use, in its adaptability to be easily kept clean, and in its adaptability economical manufacturing. These together with other objects and advantages which will become subsequently apparent reside in the details of construction and operation as more fully hereinafter described and claimed, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings forming a part hereof, wherein like numerals refer to like parts throughout and in which:

Figure l is a perspective view of the invention illustrating the same in position on the users body, the latter being shown by dotted lines;

Figure 2 is a fragmentary perspective view of the invention per so on an enlarged scale; and

Figure 3 is a sectional detail, taken substantially on the plane of the line 33 in Figure 2.

Referring now to the accompanying drawing in detail, the invention consists of a pile truss which is designated 10 and embodies in of the crotch which is conto which the rear end of the shoulder straps 16 are also attached as indicated at 30.

The shoulder straps 16 of the harness 12 are equipped with suitable buckles 32 for adjustment purposes.

The furcations 2% of the crotch portion 14 are of a hollow construction to provide elongated pockets therein the member 22 of the crotch portion 14 provides an elongated pocket 36 to receive padding material eye 42 through which the extension 24 best shown in Figure 3, whereby to sustain the padding material in the pocket.

The padding material 34 and 38 is preferably in the form of round, solid, flexible rubber or the like.

From the foregoing, the construction and operation of the device will be readily apparent and further explanation is believed to be unnecessary. However, since nu- References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 244,561 Diel July 19, 1881 FOREIGN PATENTS 678,457 Great Britain Sept. 3, 1952 

